Charlotte Bracegirdle
‘Life is an individual experience, in which we become somebody for just a moment; to live and to enjoy our dreams, leaving inevitably a trace behind us.’
Charlotte Bracegirdle’s work is based around the subtle traces that we leave behind. When a person no longer occupies a space everything appears different, but visually nothing is altered. Everything looks, smells and feels as it was when that person was there, but the image is not the same despite evidence telling you that it is.
The pictures become empty stages, deserted and uncanny – left only with hints of past activity. Although there are just the empty spaces, surreal shapes and objects floating, at a closer glance you’ll see shadows where once were people.
Charlotte Bracegirdle graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London in 2006. She has exhibited widely in London since graduating, and has more recently been included in art fairs in Miami and New York. In 2008 Bracegirdle was a finalist in the Becks Canvas Award, and in 2009 was a runner up in the AXA Young Masters Art Prize.
Charlotte Bracegirdle lives and works in London.
Education
2006 MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London
1997 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Southampton Institute
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 New Work, Medcalf Gallery, London
2008 Where Once Were People, Madame Lillie’s Gallery, London
2007 New Work, Madame Lillie’s Gallery, London
2000 What If?, The Gantry Art Centre, Southampton
1998 Broken Biscuits, The Ashcroft Arts Centre, Hampshire
1997 Serendipity, The Brompton Gallery, Southampton
1997 The Loather Arcade, The Hampshire Sculpture Trust, Winchester
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Art of Christmas, Opus Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
2010 Fresh Cream, Opus Fine Art, London
2010 Summer Exhibition, Opus Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
2010 Fresh Cream, Opus Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne
2010 Art at the Top, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, New York
2009 AXA Young Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
2009 Missing, Blyth Gallery, London
2009 Breaking New, Five Hundred Dollar Gallery, London
2009 This Was Now, Sartorial Art, London
2009 Drawing with Dolphins, Crimestown Gallery, London
2008 Salon 08, Vine Space, London
2008 Walpugisnacht, Crimestown Gallery, London
2008 What Goes Up Must Come Down, Madame Lillie’s Gallery, London
2007 Salon 07, Seven Seven Gallery, London
2007 Death, Madame Lillie's Gallery, London
2006 The Empire Christmas Art Fair, The Empire Gallery, London
2006 Arcade, Marble Arch, London
2006 Silent But Violent, The Empire Gallery, London
2006 The Davis Langdon Award Exhibition, London
2005 Short and Sharp, Howie St, London
2004 A Sharp Intake of Breath, Beldam Gallery, Uxbridge
2004 The 39 Xmas Tree, 39 Gallery, London
2001 Animal Instincts, The Ashcroft Arts Centre, Hampshire
2000 One Night Stand, The Dark Side of the Star Gallery, Southampton
2000 Visions of the Future, The Millais Gallery, Southampton
1997 New Contemporaries, The Gantry Art Centre, Southampton
1997 Useful, The Hampshire Sculpture Trust, Winchester
1997 Useful, The Millais Gallery, Southampton
AWARDS
2009 AXA Young Masters Art Prize, shortlisted
2008 Becks Canvas Award
2007 New Contemporaries, shortlisted
2006 David Langdon Award
ART FAIRS
2011 SCOPE Art Fair, Opus Fine Art, New York
2010 NewcastleGateshead Art Fair, Opus Fine Art, Gateshead
2010 Art Chicago, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
2010 SCOPE Art Fair, Opus Fine Art, New York
2010 London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
2009 Art Miami, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Miami
